Suggested questions for study groups

1. What would you consider to be the most pressing social issues today, and how can Communalism relate to them?

2. How can we say that capitalism has "generalized its threats to humanity"?

3. Who will change the world? What is the "revolutionary subject" today?

4. How does Communalism relate to Marxism and anarchism? In what way can we claim that Communalism have transcended these ideologies? What are the shortcomings and what are the advantages of Communalism in this respect?

5. What is the distinction between freedom and autonomy? How does decisionmaking processes based on consensus or democracy relate to these concepts?

6. What is the distinction between a state and a government?

7. What is the relationship between laws and constitutions and a libertarian society.

8. Why is the ideal of citizenship so central for Communalism?

9. What is the meaning of leadership for Communalist politics?

10. How can we give power "a concrete institutional emancipatory form"?

Suggested further reading

– "The New Municipal Agenda", chapter 8 in From Urbanization to Cities: Towards a New Politics of Citizenship, by Murray Bookchin (London: Cassell, 1995).
– "History, Civilization and Progress", in The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism, by Murray Bookchin (Revised edition, Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995).
– “What is Social Ecology”, by Murray Bookchin, 1993.
– "From Here to There", chapter 6 in Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, by Murray Bookchin (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1989).
– "Communalism as Alternative: A Statement of the Advisory Board", in Communalism: International Journal for a Rational Society, October 2002 (Issue # 1).